infight

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An internal battle; a fight with allies or other members of the same group.
    — The power struggle to establish Kim Il Sung as the sole leader in North Korea took almost a decade, entailing a series of bitter factional infights.
动词 v.
  1. To fight with allies or other members of the same group. intransitive
    — While Kennedy infought to trim outlays to match resources, critics claimed that the era of the big eleemosynaries had come to an end.
  2. To box while extremely close to an opponent
    — Be prepared to slip and duck his jab to infight or to counter with a quick punch to the head or body.

词形变化

infights present,singular,third-person infighting participle,present infought participle,past infought past infights plural

词源

词源 1
Apparently a back-formation from infighting, perhaps continuing Middle English infighten (“to attack”), from Old English infiht, infeoht (“an attack made upon a person by another in the same house or between members of a household”), equivalent to in- + fight. Compare Middle English infiht (“an internal fight, a brawl within a household”).
词源 2
Apparently a back-formation from infighting, perhaps continuing Middle English infighten (“to attack”), from Old English infiht, infeoht (“an attack made upon a person by another in the same house or between members of a household”), equivalent to in- + fight. Compare Middle English infiht (“an internal fight, a brawl within a household”).
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